[Standards] request for support for LMF-6-themed workshop application by F. Frontini

[Christian Thomas]

Dear Piotr, dear list, I support it too!
Best wishes, hope you are all well, Christian


Am 19.03.2020 um 15:04 schrieb Piotr Banski:
>
> Dear all,
>
> You may recall from our last teleconference that Francesca Frontini is 
> the project leader of the nascent ISO LMF-6 ("Lexicon Markup Framework 
> - Syntax and Semantics") and that Francesca is preparing an 
> application for a workshop meant to, firstly, communicate the 
> assumptions and the state of work on the LMF-6 proposal to the CLARIN 
> community, and, secondly, gather feedback from our community on the 
> actual use cases, problems, application areas, etc., in order for the 
> standardization procedure to proceed according to the rules of the 
> trade, namely by building on the best practices in the field, with 
> CLARIN being given, as it were, the front seat in this case.
>
> The initial plans are still to hold the workshop following this year's 
> CAC (with various obvious questions raised, given the current 
> situation, but one has to assume a measure of stability and hope for 
> the next-to-best), and Francesca plans on distributing the standard 
> proposal (or more precisely new-work-item proposal) well in advance, 
> so that the interested researchers can do their homework before the 
> meeting and present their results there, in a kind of hands-on session.
>
> I have participated in the work of ISO Technical Committee 37 
> Subcommittee 4 (TC37SC4) Working Group 4, where, in January, Francesca 
> presented her initial take on the LMF-6 proposal, and where the group 
> tasked Francesca with preparing the workshop (and me with paving the 
> way to the CLARIN Governance/Office). I have also seen the workshop 
> application that Francesca is about to submit to CLARIN ERIC. I am 
> confident that the workshop can be an event fruitful both for the ISO 
> initiative and for CLARIN.
>
> I would like to ask the committee for support for this initiative, so 
> that Francesca can cite that in the project proposal. More precisely, 
> *I would like to ask for implied support, i.e., for Francesca to be 
> able to mention that the CSC supports the idea of organising the 
> workshop, if there are no vetoes posted to this list today or tomorrow*.
>
> Let me stress that there is no risk of any kind involved here to the 
> CSC: a member wishes to organize an event under the liaison between 
> ISO TC37SC4 and CLARIN to involve the CLARIN community in the ISO 
> process. Participation in TC37SC4 is one of the intended activities of 
> CLARIN, as evidenced by the recent signing of the liaison, which gives 
> CLARIN members the right to view the standards processed by TC37SC4 
> and opens the path of influence on the developing/reassessed 
> standards. It is also in our interest as the CSC to be visible in 
> standardization initiatives, especially if they involve a CSC member 
> and a standards body that our committee helped to forge a liaison with.
>
> I am sure that Francesca will make the LMF-6 proposal available to us 
> when it is in a shareable shape. But I am also convinced that the 
> above paragraph summarizes the reasons for the CSC to be sympathetic 
> to the initiative already at this stage.
>
> With advance thanks for your support and best regards,
>
>   Piotr
>
>

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